Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] [noun sg] than [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is little doubt that it was the labour shortage which caused the shift to leasing , but although this provided more revenue than persistence in demesne farming would have done it still left the landowner with reduced resources . |
| 2 | Once there , Ursula poured more gin than tonic into a tumbler and drank at least a quarter of it in one gulp . |
| 3 | Both BBC-TV and ITV , both early and main evening news , all followed the same trend : they all screened more presentation than controversy until the third week ; then they screened between two and four times as much controversy as presentation in the third week , before reverting to more presentation at the end of the campaign . |
| 4 | It looked more silver than gold on this dull , overcast day . |
| 5 | He had always hated Jews — the pogrom was the way to deal with them — and a beating gave more satisfaction than use of a gun . |
| 6 | The gravel sweep had more sand than gravel on it and the places which vehicles did not pass over were weedy . |